Letters to the editor

Dear Stan,
The deadline for registrations for the third the Mondialogo School Contest, the world’s largest competition for students has been announced.

Teachers and educators in the Middle East may register their students aged between 14 and 18 years before November 1, 2007.
Mondialogo, the global initiative launched by DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO encourages dialogue among young people from different cultural backgrounds who work on a joint project across continents.
Their involvement with people from different cultural backgrounds conveys values such as understanding, mutual respect and tolerance.
Ambassadors of the initiative include the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho and Swedish writer Henning Mankell. Registration is open at www.mondialogo.org
After registration, a draw is held to match participating schools with a partner team from another country or continent. The two teams then make contact with each other, agree on a joint project topic and work on this in a process of continuous exchange. The resulting intercultural dialogue leads to the emergence of a joint creative project.
This may be a piece of music, a play, a collage, a photographic documentation, a sculpture, an Internet page – there are no limits to the imagination.
In 2008, students and teachers from particularly committed schools will take part in the International Mondialogo Symposium, where representatives of the partner teams will meet each other in person.
After several days of workshops and joint activities, the three best partner teams will receive cash awards amounting to EUR 500, 1,000 and 1,500 as part of a festive prize-giving ceremony.
Yours truly,
Sue Williams, UNESCO

Dear Stan,
I was recently in Bahrain and read Asma Salman’s article on Nader Shaheen (Bahraini banker invests in mirth) in the July 4-10, 2007 issue. Could you send me Mr Shaheen's email address? I would like to contact him about his comedy routine.
Thank you.
Mary Coons
Pen & Ink Communications

Editor’s note: Dear Mary,
we are delighted to forward your request to Mr Shaheen.

Dear Stan,
In 2005, the World Conference on Breast Cancer Foundation contacted your organisation regarding our announcements and media releases for the 4th World Conference on Breast Cancer.  We received a large response from groups all over the world, and would like to extend our sincere appreciation for the information that your organisation passed along for us.
 The next ‘World Conference on Breast Cancer’ is in June of 2008 in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada , and we hope that you will be able to help us deliver our message to the world once again. 
We could not reach the amount of people that we have without your support.
Sincerely,
Shawna Holm
E: shawna@wcbcf.ca
W: www.wcbcf.ca
World Conference on Breast Cancer Foundation 5th World Conference on Breast Cancer ‘Heart, Soul and Science: It’s a Small World After All’ Winnipeg, Manitoba – June 4 to 8 2008
Editor’s note: We are happy to help. See cancer special on Pages 8 & 9.